An artist has inspired hundreds of people to celebrate Newark’s rich history, and embrace their creative side in the process. Vanessa Stone has been the artist in residence at the National Civil War Centre, on Appletongate, Newark, since October and now comes to the end of her six-month residency — a time she feels has been ‘utterly fabulous’. When she first set up shop in the museum she aimed to bring the community together through art, allowing people to try their hand at her unique medium of papercutting and collage. Over the past six months she has created a number of large scale works of …
